Intentions I'm Setting for 2025

Big themes for next year

More days like this in 2025, please!

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. I had big plans to do a deliberate celebration, set my intentions for 2025, and think about the returning light over the next six months with a table full of candles and evergreen branches. Instead, I came down with ANOTHER flu-like ailment and spent most of the day on the couch contemplating how it was possible that I could feel EVERY nerve in my body.

This was not how I wanted to start my two-week break from work. However, getting sick for a second time in just under six weeks after not catching anything for nearly two years was a pretty blatant alarm bell that I needed to figure out my work stress, which has ballooned like a cyst over the last six months.

Which is to say it’s time for a reset and a little introspection on what I want to do more of and less of in 2025.

I’ve broken this year’s intentions into categories as suggested by the Many Moons planner. These certainly aren’t the only things I plan to think about during 2025, but it's nice to have a few big areas to focus on and see what follows from there.